But enough of that for now.

A bit like Maria in the Sound of Music, "let's start at the very beginning"

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So a big set of fucking gates stopping me from getting in? Hello i think you forgot to put a door in the frame.

C'mon
let's mooch

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I guess no comfort was spared in the gatehouse, maybe it was brought here later. It is a bit chintz for the troops of the former USSR.

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Walking on, it seemed like miles, but probably wasn't, structures, small and big randomly standing amongst the trees....

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....and a slightly out of focus big animal

Where am I?

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Apparently I am at the former base of the Soviet Senite Missile Regiment, here to defended the positions of the medium-range missile units of the 2nd Senite Missile Division of the Senite Missile Regiment!

Who am I to argue

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There were some nicely hidden underground bunkers still here

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Dark gloomy and empty, former living quarters, or air raid shelter?

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OOOOH! look a squat and squit bog.

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I wonder what was stored down here, super reinforced with the number of concrete ribs, the door way at 90 degrees to the steps, would have held a substantial door, and maybe the weak opening above is a sacrificial panel, to allow any energy to dissipate through it?

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So time to have a look above ground

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Time to try and find a way in, wandering around the building, that's when I found the tour bus

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Evidently it has never been packed with umbexers, but with a lot of lycra clad super fit cyclists, i am worn out at the thought of it.

Anyways, thank you mr bus I have found my way in

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It was a bit of a squeeze, fortune favours the brave. You see when you have that adrenaline pumping, all of a sudden you feel slimmer, braver and more agile. Thankfully it was still surging when it was time to get out.

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No real signs of recent habitation, though the stuff in the jar wasn't mouldy

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Oh! thats's nice " Carbon Monoxide Poisoning"

I guess this part was used in some form of vehicle maintenance. post Soviet times.

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This one was a lot easier to enter

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A long corridor with rooms off, this was becoming apparent as being an accommodation block for the, no doubt, conscripts of the Senite Missile Regiment.

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Communal squat and squit toilets, I mean come on puhlease, where is the privacy if you want to choke the chicken?

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Home made shower cubicle, why?

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Z Company May 1976

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Pigeon holes assigned to varios "cabins"

This end of the building seemed to be an administrative section, my source mentioned that when the Russian's left the place for a short while became a prison. I can find no evidence really, maybe he was surmising.....

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.....There were a couple of cells through the admin office, I guess though, that these are pretty common on military bases.

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Rudimentary fittings, but one did have the luxury of a phone!

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Plenty of reading material to keep the incarcerated occupied.

So my time here is done, I shall make haste.